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330.
Savu

half the boat made a signal of having had intelligence of a harbour to Leeward & we in consequence bore away for it  the boat following soon came on board & told us that the people had behavd in an uncommaly civil manner, that they had seen some of their principal people who were dressd in fine linnen & had chains of gold round their necks  that they had not been able to trade  the owner of the Cocoa nut trees not being there  but had got about 2 dozn of Cocoa nuts given as a present by these principal people  who accepted of Linnen in return & made them plainly understand by drawing a map upon the sand that on the Lee side of the Island was a bay in which we might anchor near a town & buy Sheep  hogs  fruits  fowls &c; they talkd much of the Portugese & of Larntuca on the Island of Ende from which circumstance it was probable that the Portugese were somewhere on the Island tho none of the natives could speak more than a word or two of the Language & the more so as one of the Indians in speaking of the
 

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